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Evaluating Equine Lameness Using New Technology
Keeping horses sound is one of the most difficult and important aspects of horse sport. Given that horses have an uncanny ability to injure themselves, at some point every rider or horse owner will need their veterinarian to conduct a lameness evaluation.
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Healthier Afoot
A Lifestyle Guide for Better Hooves
In a surprising number of cases, unhealthy hooves are not due to heritable weakness but instead to avoidable lifestyle factors. As hard as it is to admit, our daily horsekeeping decisions are sometimes the cause of our horses’ sore feet. The primary factors that have weakened modern horses’ feet include lack of movement, ground surfaces, diet and supplements, and practices related to weaning and early development.
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CF Fence
CF Fence founder and owner Alan Cossentine began making custom, light-weight, easier-to-open pipe gates to replace the old wooden ones on his property. Word spread, and he started CF Fence to answer the demand. Today, CF Fence manufactures quality products that are safe, reliable, user-friendly and cost effective, including continuous fencing, panels, gates, bale feeders, and fire sprinklers.
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Demonstrate Emotional Intelligence
If you enjoy a leadership role in the horse industry, such as riding instructor, stable manager, or mentor, your role places you in a unique leadership position to demonstrate emotional intelligence and maintenance of a balanced life.
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Diseases with Horse-to-Human Transmission
Direct horse-to-human disease transmission is possible, albeit rare. Here’s a quick refresher on some bacterial, fungal, parasitic, and viral diseases that can potentially be transmitted to us directly from the equines in our lives.
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Dashing Through The Snow at Canada’s Cutter Rallies
When Canada becomes a winter wonderland shrouded with snow, many riders hang up their boots or disappear into indoor arenas. For teamsters in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Quebec, winter means hitching their horses to wagons, cutters, and bobsleighs to drive the trails at fundraising rallies.
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Too Cold to Ride
Cold weather can bring many hazards and discomforts to both horse and rider. But should you feel guilty about not continuing to work your horse during the harsher days of winter?
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The musculoskeletal system of the horse is an incredible machine — strong, fast, efficient, and capable of performing many varied feats. However, horse owners are all too aware of the fact that despite this amazing athletic ability, the equine body can be remarkably fragile. | |
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How to Load a Troubled Trailer Loader
There is always a reason a horse will not load. Things like separation anxiety, displacement anxiety, fear of the unknown, or anticipation of a past event repeating itself are all intangible and easily overlooked. There is often a question of who has authority, the horse or handler?
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Rare Jewel
A Hockey and Horses Story
When Conn Smythe, the legendary owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs, needed money to bolster the team for their journey to the 1922 Stanley Cup, he entered a Thoroughbred he had purchased on a hunch into a race at 107-1 odds.
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What Are YOU Looking At?
At some point, every rider has endured a hair-raising, nail-biting moment of time when one’s life flashes before one’s eyes due to a wildlife critter that would under normal circumstances seem adorable and charming. In these moments, though, wildlife seems like one of life’s great cruelties.
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